Sentences with phrase «emerging problem of climate change»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded 25 years ago to provide authoritative assessments on the emerging problem of climate change.

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Every five years or so, fresh hints emerge from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations scientific body charged with assessing the state of understanding of the problem.

Climate change has emerged as one of the most talked - about problems, yet global negotiations have fallen apart, and we are barely any closer to cutting carbon emissions than we were 10 years ago.

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In response to shareholder questions, Tillerson reiterated his views that climate change represents another risk among many that the company manages; that the ramifications of global warming are unclear because «the [scientific] models simply are not that good»; and that technology advances will provide «engineered solutions» to address whatever problems emerge.